GenXegesis

Essays on Alternative Youth (Sub)Culture

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Paperback | 5 November 2003

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Although most people think "Generation X" is a recently coined label for the post-Baby Boom generation, since the early 1950s the phrase has signified a seemingly identity-less group of young people trying to define themselves within an uncertain, even hostile world. GenXegesis: Essays on Alternative Youth (Sub)Culture is the first collection of critical essays on Generation X.
Resituating the term in its neglected (sub)cultural context, the contributors offer a critical assessment of the "Generation X" phenomenon and its relation to the fashioning of differing identities within and against the mainstream. The essays explore a variety of topics, including punk subculture, alternative music, reality television, postmodernism, and the Internet. Together, the contributors share a refreshingly self-conscious approach to Generation X's precarious, often paradoxical position as an alternative to the mainstream. This collection will be enjoyed by scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and anyone interested in popular culture, including Gen-Xers themselves.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture Sociology & Anthropology

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Generation X: A (Sub)Cultural Genealogy	p. 3
Music and Performance
"Alternative" Music and the Oppositional Potential of Generation X Culture	p. 41
Jigsaw Youth versus Generation X and Postmodernism	p. 59
"Touch Me I'm Sick": Contagion as Critique in Punk and Performance Art	p. 79
Print Media
You Can See Nathan's from Here: Lobbing Culture at the Boomers	p. 105
Theoretical Tailspins: Reading "Alternative" Performance in Spin Magazine	p. 121
Generating Xs: Identity Politics, Consumer Culture, and the Making of a Generation	p. 162
Generation X and the End of History	p. 184
Electronic Media
Talking Out of School: Academia Meets Generation X	p. 199
"Await Lightning": How Generation X Remaps the Road Story	p. 221
The Apocalypse Will Be Televised: Electronic Media and the Last Generation	p. 249
Conclusion: Generation X X: The Identity Politics of Generation X	p. 268
Contributors	p. 297
Index	p. 299
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